Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network

From violence to hate speech, self-harm to child abuse, is Facebook putting profit before safety?

From violence to hate speech, self-harm to child abuse, this documentary gives undercover access to how Facebook handles extreme content and asks if the company is putting profit before safety. 

There are over 1.47 billion daily active users and more than 2 billion monthly active users on Facebook. With 100 million hours of video watched every day on Facebook, how does the world's biggest social media platform decide what can and can't be posted on its site?

If users find content they think is inappropriate, they can report it to Facebook. A content moderator will then decide whether or not it breaks the platform's rules. Each of these reports is called a 

Twice a Victim: How Have Attacks Affected Muslims in Europe?

As attacks continue to be linked to Islam, European Muslims share their stories of loss, discrimination and identity.

On March 11, 2004, during the morning rush hour, several bombs ripped through four commuter trains in the Spanish capital, Madrid. The simultaneous, coordinated blasts killed more than 190 people and injured almost 2,000.

The Madrid bombings were the first in a string of violent attacks on European soil in recent years - from London, Paris, Brussels and Nice to Manchester, Barcelona and Berlin.

These attacks were claimed to be carried out in the name of Islam, which has created an association between the Islamic faith and armed violence. As a result, many Muslims in Europe are facing heightened Islamophobia, hatred and ostracism.

Iran 1979: Legacy of a Revolution

What is the legacy of Iran's Islamic revolution and how does it affect Iranian society more than three decades later?

After decades of royal rule, millions of Iranians took to the streets in a popular movement against a regime that was seen as brutal, corrupt and illegitimate.

Revolutionary forces, under the leadership of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini, forced the shah of Iran into exile.

His government was overthrown and replaced by a new Islamic order. The Islamic revolution put Iran on a new path - one that led to an ongoing conflict with the West.

Decades after the founding of the Islamic republic, the ideals that inspired the uprising continue to affect everyday life in modern Iran.

ISIL and the Taliban

Al Jazeera gains unprecedented access to ISIL's central leadership and explores the threat it poses to the Taliban.

Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy. 

Employing violence and brutality to impose its will ,  Wilayat Khorasan, (the ancient name ISIL has chosen for the region made up of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of neighbouring countries), has emerged in seven different areas and vowed to step up operations, where the veteran fighters - the Taliban - once held sway.

The Girls of the Taliban

An insight into a girls' school in Afghanistan which imposes an even stricter interpretation of Islam than the Taliban.

Kunduz in northern Afghanistan is the country's fifth largest city and home to more than 300,000 people.

It was once a Taliban stronghold where women were deprived of their basic rights and education for girls was prohibited.

Today, particularly in towns and cities, women can go outside without their husbands or fathers, they can work, and girls can attend school and even university.

But with a new wave of privately run madrasas - or religious schools - being opened across the country, there is a growing feeling among women's rights groups that these freedoms are again under threat.

Al Jazeera's must-see documentaries of 2017

Al Jazeera has released dozens of documentaries in the last 12 months, many of them award-winning.

So we've compiled a list of our must-see documentaries of 2017, covering some of the year's major news events.

From the battle in the Philippines to take back Marawi from ISIL, to the showmanship of US President Donald Trump, these are seven Al Jazeera documentaries you cannot miss. 

The Boy Who Started the Syrian War

The New Germans

Exploring Germany's reception of new immigrants and its long-term pursuit of Arab migrants as a demographic strategy.

Nearly one million ethnic Arabs fleeing war and violence back home have come to Germany since 2015.

This film follows one of them, newspaper editor and Syrian asylum seeker Ramy Alasheq, as he looks into historical patterns of Arab immigration and how the latest arrivals are being received in their new country.

For Ramy and many others, life has not been the same since young men said to be Arab were accused of robbing and attacking German women on New Year's Eve 2015 in his new hometown, Cologne. It is a city that Ramy has come to love. But while he and fellow immigrants initially received a warm reception, there are now widespread calls to halt the entry of Arab refugees into Germany.